Friends, the author, Thierry Meyssan, offers little evidence of the new weapon in the article below, click the link below.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article210672.html
By Pepe Escobar
On August
10, 2020 "Information Clearing House" reported the
narrative that the Beirut explosion was an exclusive consequence of negligence
and corruption by the current Lebanese government is now set in stone.
And
yet, digging deeper, we find that negligence and corruption may have been fully
exploited, via sabotage, to engineer it.
Lebanon
is prime John Le Carré territory. A multinational den of spies of all shades –
House of Saud agents, Zionist operatives, “moderate rebel” weaponizers,
Hezbollah intellectuals, debauched Arab “royalty,” self-glorified smugglers –
in a context of full spectrum economic disaster afflicting a member of the Axis
of Resistance, a perennial target of Israel alongside Syria and Iran.
As
if this were not volcanic enough, into the tragedy stepped President Trump to
muddy the – already contaminated – Eastern Mediterranean waters. Briefed by “our great generals,” Trump
on Tuesday said: “According to them – they would know better than I would – but
they seem to think it was an attack.”
Trump
added, “it was a bomb of some kind.”
Was
this incandescent remark letting the cat out of the bag by revealing classified
information? Or was the President launching another non sequitur?
Trump eventually walked
his comments back after the Pentagon declined to confirm his claim about what
the “generals” had said and his defense secretary, Mark Esper, supported the
accident explanation for the blast.
It’s yet another graphic
illustration of the war engulfing the Beltway. Trump: attack. Pentagon:
accident. “I don’t think anybody can say right now,” Trump said on Wednesday.
“I’ve heard it both ways.”
Still, it’s worth noting a report by Iran’s Mehr News Agency that four US Navy reconnaissance planes were
spotted near Beirut at the time of the blasts.
That ammonium nitrate
Security
at Beirut’s port – the nation’s prime economic hub – would have to be
considered a top priority. But to adapt a line from Roman Polanski’s Chinatown:
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Beirut.”
Those
by now iconic 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate arrived in Beirut in September
2013 on board the Rhosus aka Rhodes, a ship under Moldovan flag sailing from
Batumi in Georgia to Mozambique. Rhosus ended up being impounded by Beirut’s
Port State Control.
Subsequently the ship was de facto
abandoned by its owner, shady businessman Igor Grechushkin, born in Russia and
a resident of Cyprus, who suspiciously “lost interest” in his relatively
precious cargo, not even trying to sell it, dumping style, to pay off his
debts.
Grechushkin never paid his crew, who barely
survived for several months before being repatriated on humanitarian grounds.
The Cypriot government confirmed there was no request to Interpol from Lebanon
to arrest him. The whole op feels like a cover – with the real recipients of
the ammonium nitrate possibly being “rebels” in Syria who use it to make IEDs
and equip suicide trucks, such as the one that demolished the Al Kindi hospital
in Aleppo.
The
2,750 tons – packed in 1-ton bags labeled “Nitroprill HD” – were transferred to
the Hangar 12 warehouse by the quayside. What followed was an astonishing case
of serial negligence.
From 2014 to 2017 letters from
customs officials – a series of them – as well as proposed options to get rid
of the dangerous cargo, exporting it or otherwise selling it, were simply ignored. Every time they tried to
get a legal decision to dispose of the cargo, they got no answer from the
Lebanese judiciary.
When Lebanese Prime Minister
Hassan Diab now proclaims, “Those responsible will pay the price,” context is
absolutely essential.
Neither the prime minister nor
the president nor any of the cabinet ministers knew that the ammonium nitrate
was stored in Hangar 12, former Iranian diplomat Amir Mousavi, the director of
the Center for Strategic Studies and International Relations in Tehran,
confirms. We’re talking about a massive IED, placed mid-city.
The bureaucracy at Beirut’s port
and the mafias who are actually in charge are closely linked to, among others, the al-Mostaqbal faction, which
is led by former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, himself fully backed by the
House of Saud.
The immensely corrupt Hariri was
removed from power in October 2019 amid serious protests. His cronies stole at least $20
billion from Lebanon’s treasury – which seriously aggravated the nation’s
currency crisis.
No wonder the current government
– where we have Prime Minister Diab backed by Hezbollah – had not been informed
about the ammonium nitrate.
Ammonium nitrate is quite stable, making it one of the safest explosives
used in mining. Fire normally won’t set it off. It becomes highly explosive
only if contaminated – for instance by oil – or heated to a point where it
undergoes chemical changes that produce a sort of impermeable cocoon around it
in which oxygen can build up to a dangerous level where an ignition can cause
an explosion.
Why, after sleeping in Hangar 12 for seven years, did this pile suddenly
feel an itch to explode?
So far, the prime straight to the point explanation, by
Middle East expert Elijah Magnier, points to the tragedy being “sparked” –
literally – by a clueless blacksmith with a blowtorch operating quite close to
the unsecured ammonium nitrate. Unsecured due, once again, to negligence and
corruption – or as part of an intentional “mistake” anticipating the
possibility of a future blast.
This scenario, though, does not
explain the initial “fireworks” explosion. And certainly does not explain what no one – at least in
the West – is talking about: the deliberate fires set to an Iranian market in
Ajam in the UAE, and also to a series of food/agricultural warehouses in Najaf,
Iraq, immediately after the Beirut tragedy.
Follow the money
Lebanon – boasting assets and real estate worth trillions of dollars –
is a juicy peach for global finance vultures. To grab these assets at rock
bottom prices, in the middle of the New Great Depression, is simply
irresistible. In
parallel, the IMF vulture would embark on full shakedown mode and finally
“forgive” some of Beirut’s debts as long as a harsh variation of “structural
adjustment” is imposed.
Who profits, in this case, are the geopolitical and geoeconomic
interests of US, Saudi Arabia and France. It’s no accident that President
Macron, a dutiful Rothschild servant, arrived in Beirut
Thursday to pledge Paris neocolonial “support” and all but impose, like a
Viceroy, a comprehensive set of “reforms”. A Monty Python-infused dialogue,
complete with heavy French accent, might have followed along these lines: “We
want to buy your port.” “It’s not for sale.” “Oh, what a pity, an accident just
happened.”
Already a month ago the IMF was “warning” that “implosion” in Lebanon
was “accelerating.” Prime Minister Diab had to accept the proverbial “offer you
can’t refuse” and thus “unlock billions of dollars in donor funds.” Or else.
The non-stop run on the Lebanese currency, for over a year now, was just a –
relatively polite – warning.
This is happening amid a massive
global asset grab characterized in the larger context by American GDP down by
almost 40%, arrays of bankruptcies, a handful of billionaires amassing
unbelievable profits and too-big-to-fail megabanks duly bailed out with a tsunami
of free money.
Dag Detter, a Swedish financier,
and Nasser Saidi, a former Lebanese minister and central bank vice
governor, suggest that the nation’s assets be
placed in a national wealth fund. Juicy assets include Electricité du Liban
(EDL), water utilities, airports, the MEA airline , telecom company
OGERO, the Casino du Liban.
EDL, for instance, is
responsible for 30% of Beirut’s budget deficit.
That’s not nearly enough for the
IMF and Western mega banks. They want to gobble up the whole thing, plus a lot
of real estate.
“The economic value of public
real estate can be worth at least as much as GDP and often several times the
value of the operational part of any portfolio,” say Detter and Saidi.
Who’s feeling the shockwaves?
Once again, Israel is the
proverbial elephant in a room now widely depicted by Western corporate media as
“Lebanon’s Chernobyl.”
A scenario like the Beirut catastrophe
has been linked to Israeli plans since February 2016.
Israel did admit that Hangar 12 was not a Hezbollah weapons storage unit.
Yet, crucially, on the same day of the Beirut blast, and following a series of
suspicious explosions in Iran and high tension in the Syria-Israeli border,
Prime Minister Netanyahu tweeted , in the present tense: “We
hit a cell and now we hit the dispatchers. We will do what is necessary in
order to defend ourselves. I suggest to all of them, including Hezbollah, to
consider this.”
That ties in with the intent, openly proclaimed late last week, to bomb Lebanese infrastructure if
Hezbollah harms Israeli Defense Forces soldiers or Israeli civilians.
A headline – “Beirut Blast Shockwaves
Will Be Felt by Hezbollah for a Long Time” – confirms that the only thing that
matters for Tel Aviv is to profit from the tragedy to demonize Hezbollah, and
by association, Iran. That
ties in with the US Congress “Countering Hezbollah in Lebanon’s Military Act of
2019” {S.1886}, which all but orders Beirut to expel Hezbollah from Lebanon.
And yet Israel has been
strangely subdued.
Muddying the waters even more,
Saudi intel – which has access to Mossad, and demonizes Hezbollah way more than
Israel – steps in. All the intel ops I talked to refuse to go on the record,
considering the extreme sensitivity of the subject.
Still, it must be stressed that a Saudi intel source whose stock
in trade is frequent information exchanges with the Mossad, asserts that the
original target was Hezbollah missiles stored in Beirut’s port. His story is
that Prime Minister Netanyahu was about to take credit for the strike –
following up on his tweet. But then the Mossad realized the op had turned
horribly wrong and metastasized into a major catastrophe.
The problem starts with the fact this was not a Hezbollah weapons depot –
as even Israel admitted. When weapons depots are blown up, there’s a primary
explosion followed by several smaller explosions, something that could last for
days. That’s not what happened in Beirut. The initial explosion was followed by
a massive second blast – almost certainly a major chemical explosion – and then
there was silence.
Thierry
Meyssan, very close to Syrian intel, advances the possibility that
the “attack” was carried out with an unknown weapon, a missile -– and not a
nuclear bomb – tested in Syria in January 2020. (The test is shown in an
attached video.)
Neither Syria nor Iran ever made a reference to this unknown weapon, and I got
no confirmation about its existence.
Assuming Beirut port was hit by an “unknown weapon,” President Trump told
the truth: It was an “attack”. And that would explain why Netanyahu,
contemplating the devastation in Beirut, decided that Israel would need to
maintain a very low profile.
Syria and Iran are in the
forefront of providing aid to Lebanon. Tehran is sending an emergency hospital,
food packages, medicine and medical equipment. Syria opened its borders with
Lebanon, dispatched medical teams and is receiving patients from Beirut’s
hospitals.
It’s always important to keep in
mind that the “attack” (Trump)
on Beirut’s port destroyed Lebanon’s main grain silo, apart from
engineering the total destruction of the port – the nation’s key trade
lifeline.
That would fit into a strategy of starving Lebanon. On the same day
Lebanon became to a great extent dependent on Syria for food – as it now
carries only a month’s supply of wheat – the US attacked silos in Syria.
Syria is a huge exporter of organic wheat. And that’s why the US
routinely targets Syrian silos and burns its crops – attempting also to starve
Syria and force Damascus, already under harsh sanctions, to spend badly needed
funds to buy food.
In stark contrast to the
interests of the US/France/Saudi axis, Plan A for Lebanon would be to
progressively drop out of the US-France stranglehold and head straight into
Belt and Road as well as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Go East, the
Eurasian way. The port and even a great deal of the devastated city, in the
medium term, can be quickly and professionally rebuilt by Chinese investment.
The Chinese are specialists in port construction and management.
This avowedly optimistic
scenario would imply a purge of the hyper-wealthy, corrupt weapons/drugs/real
estate scoundrels of Lebanon’s plutocracy – which in any case scurry away to
their tony Paris apartments at the first sign of trouble.
Couple that with Hezbollah’s very successful social welfare system – which Above, Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah
I saw for myself at work last
year – having a shot at winning the confidence of the impoverished middle
classes and thus becoming the core of the reconstruction.
The Empire of Chaos, the globalists, need chaos everywhere.
General Wesley Clark’s notorious 7 countries in 5 years once again come to mind – and Lebanon remains one of those 7 countries. The Lebanese lira may have collapsed; most Lebanese may be completely broke; Lebanon’s grain has been destroyed and now Beirut is devastated. That may be the straw breaking the Lebanese camel’s back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNt7s_Wed_4
https://www.jpost.com/tags/israeli-new-weapons?page=2
video link of TR3B in action over Beirut???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUQIHEBchCo
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